Daniel Plas Rivera Lead Software Engineer — GenAI, Data Engineering, Reverse Engineering https://morphus56k.com en-us Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:57:53 GMT <![CDATA[The Memorial Bot Learns to Fight Back: From Behavioral Cloning to Style-Constrained Reinforcement Learning]]> https://morphus56k.com/blog/alan-bot-rl-era https://morphus56k.com/blog/alan-bot-rl-era Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT plasx1987@gmail.com (Daniel Plas Rivera) behavioral-cloning reinforcement-learning machine-learning fighting-games marvel-vs-capcom fightcade memorial-ai imitation-learning arxiv reverse-engineering <![CDATA[Cabinet-Faithful Spectating: Why You Can't Just memcpy a Game State Across Architectures]]> https://morphus56k.com/blog/cabinet-parity-spectate https://morphus56k.com/blog/cabinet-parity-spectate Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT plasx1987@gmail.com (Daniel Plas Rivera) reverse-engineering arcade1up cps2 emulation cross-architecture fighting-games libarcade m68000 fbalpha debugging <![CDATA[The Missing State Schema for the Memorial Bot Was a Paper, Not a Trace Session]]> https://morphus56k.com/blog/state-schema-from-paper https://morphus56k.com/blog/state-schema-from-paper Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT plasx1987@gmail.com (Daniel Plas Rivera) behavioral-cloning machine-learning fighting-games marvel-vs-capcom fightcade reverse-engineering memorial-ai <![CDATA[Can You Bring a Fightcade Player Back? 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